Vinyl trim salvage machine

A vinyl trim salvage machine comprising:

• a substantially planar support base;
• a cutter shaft having a longitudinal axis and first and second longitudinal ends;
• a cutter housing having first and second side walls and an aperture defined through each said side wall for receiving a respective longitudinal end of said cutter shaft, said support base being fixedly secured to the walls of the housing so as to be irremovable without disassembly of the machine and extending at least from a vertical plane extending through the axis of the cutter shaft to a location upstream from said cutter shaft;
• at least one cutter fixedly mounted to said cutter shaft, each said cutter including first and second spaced apart cutting edges;
• at least one upwardly open guide channel defined on an upper surface of said planar support base by first and second guide channel walls which extend upwardly from the support base for receiving and guiding a workpiece to be severed by said cutter, each said cutter being mounted to said cutter shaft so that both cutting edges thereof extend into a respective guide channel so as to intersect a plane extending through a bottom surface of the channel;
• means defining an opening through said support base vertically below each said cutting edge;
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• at least one support means disposed between said cutting edges so that an upper surface thereof lies in the plane of the bottom surface of the channel.